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He is the prototype of the protagonist of "Latent", he is the CCP's "Secret Envoy No. 1" praised by Mao Zedong, and he is Wu Shi, a native of Fuzhou. For the sake of his faith and his mission, he chose to pass on the information and continue to lurk. This little-known history has been sealed in dust for more than half a century, and it is only in recent years, with the declassification of relevant archives, that the "lurking" heroes have gradually surfaced.
He is the prototype of the protagonist of "Latent"
General Wu Shi (left), Yu Zecheng in "Latent" (right)
In 2009, "Latent" dominated the screen, it was already 11 years ago, the last episode of the TV series, Yu Zecheng was taken to the airport to prepare to evacuate Taiwan, and was unexpectedly reunited with Cui Ping when he was imprisoned. The two are close at hand, but they can only look at each other...
For the sake of faith and mission, he chose to pass on the information and continue to lurk.
On June 10, 1950, Yu Zecheng prototyped Lieutenant General Wu Shi, the highest intelligence officer of the Kuomintang, who had been shot by our party, together with Lieutenant General Chen Baocang, female underground party member Zhu Feng, and Colonel Nie Xi under Wu Shi...
However, this little-known history has been dusted off for more than half a century. It is only in recent years, with the declassification of relevant archives, that the "lurking" heroes have gradually surfaced!
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1945, Wu Shi took shanghai with his army. Like Yu Zecheng in the film and television drama, after seeing through the essence of the Kuomintang government, Wu Shi gradually developed a good feeling for the Communist Party, and during that time, he frequently contacted Wu Zhongxi (Wu Zhongxi secretly joined the Communist Party of China on the eve of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and for a long time lurked in the Kuomintang army to engage in espionage work, and was the military law enforcement supervisor of the Commander-in-Chief of the Fourth Theater of Operations) In April 1947, Wu Shi became the number 1 person in our party who broke into the enemy's interior...
Before the Battle of the Crossing River began, our army received a top-secret piece of information -- Chiang Kai-shek's map of the defense of the Yangtze River. The information is very informative, the unit numbers marked on the map are detailed to the regiment, and the defensive deployment of each regiment is very clear... It was General Wu Shi who risked his life to provide this confidential document. During that critical period, Wu Shi disregarded life and death and frequently passed on intelligence.
On August 14, 1949, Wu Shi, who was already serving in Fuzhou, suddenly received an urgent telegram from Chiang Kai-shek, appointing him as the deputy chief of staff of the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense and immediately going to Taiwan to take up his post! Prior to this, the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense had hundreds of boxes of top-secret archives to be transferred from Fuzhou to Taiwan. Wu Shi took great risks and withheld these top-secret files.
However, this time Wu Shi was urgently sent to Taiwan because this move was exposed? He had no bottom in his heart. But this was definitely a huge adventure to bet on his life, and Wu Shi and Wu Zhongxi met for the last time before going to Taiwan. Wu Zhongxi later wrote in his memoirs: "I asked him to consider whether he was sure to go to Taiwan, and if he did not go, he could also stay and go to the Liberated Areas." He insisted that there were too few things to do for the people, and that since there were still opportunities, personal risk was nothing. ”
In order to gain Chiang Kai-shek's trust, Wu Shi chose to take his wife Wang Bikui and a pair of children who were still young to Taiwan, leaving the eldest son and daughter on the mainland.
Before going to Taiwan, the East China Bureau of the CPC gave him the code name "Secret Envoy No. 1." After going to Taiwan, he held the rank of lieutenant general of the "Deputy Chief of Staff of the Ministry of National Defense".
He was praised by Mao Zedong as the "Secret Envoy No. 1"
Mao Zedong's "Praise for the Secret Envoy No. 1"
"The waves are shining on the isolated island, the blue waves reflect the dawn; the tiger's den hides the loyal soul, and the dawn ushers in early." This is Chairman Mao's poem praising "Secret Envoy No. 1."
"Fifty-seven years in a dream, fame and deeds are always empty; by virtue of the heart of a dan, Izumi sent a messenger to me." This is a poem that "Secret Messenger One" recited when he rushed to the execution ground.
In late October 1949, the People's Liberation Army launched successive battles to seize Kinmen Island off the coast of Fujian and Dengbu Island off the coast of Zhejiang. At this time, shortly after the founding of New China, PLA fighters still lacked naval combat experience and equipment, while the Kuomintang air force and navy still maintained strong combat capabilities. After the two battles were fought, our troops suffered heavy losses and a large number of casualties.
This result shook Mao Zedong, who was busy with the affairs of nation-building, and he concluded bitterly that this was the first undue loss since the Liberation War. In this situation, the CPC Central Committee sent an urgent telegram to the East China Bureau: Special liaison officers were dispatched to Taiwan to activate the "Secret Envoy No. 1"!
From December 1949 to February 1950, Wu Shi and Zhu Feng, a female Communist Party member, met secretly in Taiwan seven times, and Wu Shi handed Over to Zhu Feng a microfilm containing top-secret materials such as "Strategic Defense Map of the Taiwan Theater." Among these extremely important top-secret intelligence are the number and number of personnel stationed in the enemy's relevant defensive areas, as well as the number of aircraft, artillery, and tanks.
In January 1950, Tsai Hsiao-qian, the supreme leader of Taiwan's underground party organization, was arrested and defected to the enemy. He confessed Zhu Feng, and even more gave the list of more than a thousand underground workers. Although Wu Shi, who was in a high position, was not completely exposed, in order to save his comrades, he used his power to issue a "special pass" for Zhu Feng and arrange for her to fly to Zhoushan on a military plane. However, unfortunately, Zhu Feng, who had already flown to Zhoushan, although only one step away from the mainland of the motherland, still could not escape the clutches of the Kuomintang agents! That "Special Pass" also became direct evidence of Wu Shi's "general communists".
On the evening of March 1, 1950, Wu Shi was arrested at his home. In the prison of the Secret Service, this once high-ranking lieutenant general was tortured in every way! He was covered in bruises, his legs were swollen, and he was blind in one eye... In the last days of his life, Wu Shi wrote more than 2,000 words. At the end of the article, he left a last word to his children: I hope that the children will experience a lifetime of incorruptibility, should know that they are good people, and abide by the clean and frugal family style of our family, then I am enough...
On June 10, 1950, General Wu Shi, who had been patriotic and worried about the people and honest and honest, and his lieutenants Nie Xi, General Chen Baocang, and Zhu Feng were sentenced to death by the Special Military Tribunal.
On the afternoon of June 10, 1950, the Taipei Racecourse Execution Ground was shrouded in haze. Heavily armed gendarmes escorted 4 "prisoners" tied up in a big way out of the prison car...
However, this killing did not begin or end. Since Cai Xiaoqian's shameless rebellion, the underground party organization in Taiwan has been devastated. A large number of underground party members on the island were arrested and killed, and more than 1,100 heroes lurking in Taiwan were sacrificed...
The "Wu Shi case" was an extraordinarily serious incident that shocked the highest levels of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and with the exception of a limited number of insiders, both sides kept secret.
In 1973, Zhou Enlai urged the public to apply for the title of "revolutionary martyr" for Wu Shi, and with the support of Mao Zedong, the State Council posthumously recognized Wu Shi as a "revolutionary martyr". When Zhou Enlai was critically ill, he said that our party will not forget its old friends in Taiwan, and two of them were mentioned, one was General Zhang Xueliang, who was still alive at that time, and the other was General Wu Shi, who had already died.
In 1993, Wu Shi's wife, Ms. Wang Bikui, died in Los Angeles, USA, and in the same year, Wu Shi and his wife's ashes were returned to the mainland of the motherland and buried together in the Futian Cemetery in Beijing in 1994.
He is Wu Shi, a native of Fuzhou
Group photo of Wu Shi and his family
Wu Shi's original name was Cuiwen, the character Yu Xuan. In August 1894, Wu Shi was born in Wucuo Village, Luozhou, Minhou County, Fujian Province (now Wucuo Village, Luozhou Town, Cangshan District, Fuzhou).
In 1911, Wu Shi joined the Fujian Northern Expedition Student Army with his young friend Wu Zhongxi and participated in the Xinhai Revolution. He studied for 4 years at the Wuchang Preparatory Officer School and the Baoding Officer School, and was a classmate of Bai Chongxi at the same time, Wu Shi was known as the "Baoding Military Academy Champion", and he always ranked first in the school regardless of the year-end examination or the graduation examination.
In 1929, Wu Shi, as the chief of the Fujian Provincial Military Staff Office, was assigned by Fang Shengtao, chairman of Fujian Province, to study in Japan, and successively studied at the Japanese Artillery School and the Japanese Army University, and his graduation results also ranked first in the two schools, known as the "Twelve Talents": Noh, Noh Wu, Noh Poetry, Noh Words, Noh Books, Noh Drawing, Noh English, Noh Japanese, Noh, Noh, Noh Shooting, Capable Driving, and Capable Of Swimming.
In 1934, after graduating and returning to China, Wu Shi served as the director of the General Staff Headquarters, specializing in intelligence work against Japan; before and after the Battle of Wuhan, Chiang Kai-shek specially summoned Wu Shi once a week for detailed consultation, which was deeply praised.
In early 1940, Wu Shi met his old friend Wu Zhongxi, who was more than 20 years apart, when Wu Zhongxi was serving as the chief of the Military Affairs Department of the Kuomintang Fourth Theater Commander's Department and the commander of the Shaoguan Garrison in Shaoguan.
Wu Zhongxi secretly joined the Communist Party of China on the eve of the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937. During the years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wu Shi often exuded a feeling of resentment and disappointment. On the one hand, he wanted to do something in a down-to-earth manner during the War of Resistance Against Japan, hoping that he would be able to learn something useful and accomplish something in the military; on the other hand, he gradually saw through the corruption within the Kuomintang and the intrigues of the official arena, and realized that no matter how hard he tried, he could not change this situation.
Wu Zhongxi later recalled: "Wu Shi had a good feeling for the Communists. He had read Mao Zedong's "On Protracted War" and other military works, heard Zhou Enlai's speeches in Luojia Mountain, Wuhan, and had contacts with Ye Jianying and others. ”
In 1947, Wu Shi began to move closer to the Chinese Communist Party and gradually became an important figure in the Enemy's side.
Visit Wu Shi's hometown
Wu Shi statue
Fuzhou Nantai Island covers an area of more than 140 square kilometers, Luozhou Town is located in the south of Nantai Island on the north bank of the Wulong River, also known as "Hundred Flowers Immortal Island" in ancient times.
Luozhou Ancient Town has many famous sages, and Luozhou has been a treasure of cultural context since ancient times. In the more than 500 years of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Dengke continued to lift up people, a total of 171 people, 33 jinshi, 12 martial arts, and the inscription of Li Hongzhang, a famous minister of the late Qing Dynasty, "Crown belt now Luozhu, poetry book Gu Yingchuan", which is not too prestigious.
The former residence of General Wu Shi, the "Secret Envoy No. 1", is about fifty meters west of the Wucuo Ferry. At No. 1 Wucuojiang Qiancheng in Wucuo Village, many signs such as "Red Education Base" have been added to the outer wall of Wu Shi's former residence.
In order to commemorate him, the descendants specially established the Wushi Revolution Memorial Hall at the former residence of Comrade Wu Shi. Comrade Wu Shi's former residence and memorial hall, although simple, do not occupy much land, the former residence and memorial hall add up to less than two basketball courts.
Standing in front of the statue, nostalgia, regret, and grief poured into the heart. The sad thing is that he was betrayed by traitors and died before dawn; it is a pity that this man full of sincerity and martial arts fell at a critical time; he remembers his heroic and fearless fighting figure and his elegant and wise voice and smile.
On the left and right sides of the statue of Comrade Wu Shi, there is a camphor tree that stands like a guard, and their branches are thick and straight, straight into the clouds. A spring breeze blows, the leaves are like the waves on the Minjiang River, pushing and shoving, wave after wave, flashing green sparkling light, Mozi gently emitted the "rustling" sound, as if to summon Comrade Wu Shi to climb on their shoulders like when he was a child, to look at the water of the Minjiang River, to have an intimate dialogue with the zhi and the birds, to capture the clouds scattered in the sky.
Behind him is He Minjiang, the mother of Eight Min's children. Here the confluence of the three rivers has entered the sea, the river surface has become particularly wide, and the water flow has become particularly quiet and deep. One side feeds the other. Under the nurturing of the Mother River, Comrade Wu Shi's character and spiritual outlook are very similar to this water. He has a heart of great love that is as good as water, he has a broad heart and vision like a river, and he is as clear and pure as a river.
In "Latent", Yu Zecheng once said, "Our stories need to be listened to, and then they will tell their children." "Tell his story to our children today!"
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